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Maker(s):Feininger, T. Lux
Culture:American, born Germany (1910 - 2011)
Title:Two Studies Mounted Together, One of Mask, the Other a Man on a Wall
Date Made:circa 1926-1928
Type:Photograph
Materials:two gelatin silver prints on paper mounted on light tan paperboard
Place Made:Germany; Dessau; Bauhaus
Measurements:mount: 14 1/8 x 18 1/16 in.; 35.8775 x 45.8788 cm; right: 4 1/8 x 2 15/16 in.; 10.4775 x 7.4613 cm; left sheet: 4 1/16 x 2 3/4 in.; 10.3188 x 6.985 cm; right sheet: 4 1/8 x 2 15/16 in.; 10.4775 x 7.4613 cm
Accession Number:  SC 1936.7.4
Credit Line:Gift of Jere Abbott
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
photo on left: exterior, man shot from very low angle, standing on roof or the edge of concrete or stucco wall, man's hands splayed out, looking down, smiling, corner of Bauhaus Dessau building visible on upper left; photo on right: dark interior, three masks, two hanging on a ladder (?), lit by a single light bulb that sits in front of center mask, center mask smaller, with a long chin and nose, masks on left and right are long ovoid masks, mask on left has only one eye and part of the nose illuminated; mask; architecture

Subjects:
Paperboard; Photographic gelatin

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